Anabolic Steroids
Beginning of paper
Since ancient history, many athletes have resorted to performance
enhancing aids to give them an edge on their opponents. Greek Olympians used
strychnine and hallucinogenic mushrooms to psych up for an event. "In 1886 a
French cyclist was the first athlete to die from using a performance enhancer ....
Middle of paper
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market sales of anabolic steroids are topping $400 million per year. One
million Americans, half of them adolescents, use black market steroids (Schrof,
54).
Anabolic steroids are synthetic compounds that resemble the natural male
sex hormone testosterone. Male hormones have two different effects in the body.
Hormones have an anabolic effect, which stimulates growth, and they have an
androgenic effect, which increases male sexual characteristics. Anabolic
steroids are constructed ....
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